“What we do basically is we show them the perfect jump shot, which is Ray Allen with his legs, with his form and technique,” Pitino told the Courier-Journal. “We put it on a split screen with theirs, and the timing is the same. It shows their mistakes, and we go out and work on it.”

Ware, who joined the team last December and struggled on the court as a highly touted freshman, figures to benefit from the added summer instruction. He mostly played point guard in a backup role last year, but figures to return to his more familiar shooting guard spot this season.

In just 20 games last year, the 6-foot-4 guard played just 105 minutes, shot 29.6 percent from the field and scored 20 points. He also turned the ball over 21 times while handing out just nine assists.

That was not the type of debut he had in mind when he came to Louisville from Rockdale County H.S. (Conyers, Ga.) as the 70th-best player by Rivals.com.

“I never spoke on it, but it was a lot tougher for me just coming in the second semester,” he told the newspaper. “I guess the word I could use is scared to mess up instead of actually just messing up, so I was a lot more hesitant, and that caused me to turn the ball over a lot more than I normally would.”

Now, with help from his head coach and a future NBA Hall of Famer, Ware believes he’s becoming the player everyone expected to see.

“I’m shooting a higher percentage,” Ware said. “I kind of look at me as one of the best shooters on the team now, and that’s a big leap. In high school I was probably one of the poorest shooters. I was just playing off athleticism, but now I’m a pretty good shooter.”